To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for certain wastewater management subsidies.
Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for certain wastewater management subsidies.
Occurrences
The SEPTIC Act ensures septic replacement grants aren’t treated as taxable income.
Evidence
‘To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for certain wastewater management subsidies.’ ... ‘The SEPTIC Act’ ... ‘wastewater management measure’ means any installation or modification of property primarily designed to manage wastewater (including septic tanks and cesspools) with respect to one or more dwelling units.
Representatives Greg Steube (R-Fla.), Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), Aaron Bean (R-Fla.), and Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) introduced the SEPTIC Act, legislation to create a uniform federal income-tax exclusion for financial assistance provided to homeowners for septic system replacement.
U.S. Representatives Greg Steube (R-Fla.), Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), Aaron Bean (R-Fla.), and Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) introduced the SEPTIC Act, legislation to create a uniform federal income-tax exclusion for financial assistance provided to homeowners for septic system replacement.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for certain wastewater management subsidies. Section 136(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended...by adding...provided...by a State or local government...for the purchase or installation of any wastewater management measure.
Text contains those laws in effect on June 23, 2026. Gross income shall not include the value of any subsidy provided...by a public utility to a customer for the purchase or installation of any energy conservation measure.
Assessments
Aaron Bean materially advanced the promised policy by helping introduce the SEPTIC Act, whose text directly amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude certain wastewater management subsidies from gross income. However, the evidence shows only introduction/proposed bill text, and the current IRC section 136 text in effect as of June 23, 2026 did not include the wastewater-management exclusion. Because the promised statutory amendment had not been enacted by the adjudication date, this is not delivered, but it earns an effort badge for a serious legislative attempt during the same federal term.
Aaron Bean materially advanced the promise by co-introducing the SEPTIC Act in April 2026, and the bill text matches the claimed policy almost exactly by proposing a federal gross-income exclusion for certain wastewater-management subsidies. But the available evidence shows introduction only, not enactment or an actual amendment to the Internal Revenue Code. Because Bean is still in office and the measure appears pending rather than definitively failed, this is not full delivery and not yet a final failure.
Aaron Bean participated in introducing the SEPTIC Act, which matches the claimed Internal Revenue Code exclusion for certain wastewater management subsidies. That is a concrete legislative effort in his current term, but the evidence does not show the measure was enacted, so the promise cannot be marked fulfilled.
The evidence shows Aaron Bean took concrete action in the current term by joining the introduction of the SEPTIC Act, whose text matches the promise to amend the Internal Revenue Code to exclude certain wastewater management subsidies from gross income. However, the provided record shows only introduction of the bill and no passage, enactment, or other completed policy change. Because there is clear legislative effort but no evidence yet of success or failure, the best judgment is unresolved rather than delivered or never.